This is an interesting idea, to be sure. It sounds like you might be sympathetic to virtue ethics (as indeed am I, though I become a consequentialist when the stakes get high).
Also, have you read Bernard Williams’ critique of utilitarianism? Because
You’re free to choose those values for yourself—you don’t have to drop them because they’re perhaps not optimal for the world’s well-being.
This is an interesting idea, to be sure. It sounds like you might be sympathetic to virtue ethics (as indeed am I, though I become a consequentialist when the stakes get high).
Also, have you read Bernard Williams’ critique of utilitarianism? Because
would definitely be one of his arguments.
I haven’t read it, but I’ll have to look into it.